Four more days, it’s time to get prepared. First, there are all of the programs saved on my Cablevision DVR to contend with, including the season finale of The Office (or, The Best Show on TV, as I call it), ...

It looks like I called Verizon just in time, though I admit this latest bit of news has me worried. Top blog Engadget HD reported today Verizon will raise prices on the DVR service on orders placed on or after ...

Jennifer called back, she was on vacation Friday. I guess I could have called the main number. She confirmed what a few of the commenters said, that the phone runs over the fiber optic lines, but the electricity that powers ...

I decided to give Cablevision a chance to say their piece, so I called up their sales hot line and gave Josh, the salesman who took the call, a shot at talking me off of the ledge. His biggest selling ...

Jennifer called me back, and I placed my FiOS order. Verizon straightened out the address problem, and because Jennifer felt pretty bad she had to postpone the order in the first place she got a supervisor to override the eight-business-day ...

An anonymous commenter didn’t like Jennifer’s claim that FiOS Internet will work better because you aren’t sharing bandwidth with your entire neighborhood. From the comment: … while you may not be “sharing” bandwidth with the rest of your neighborhood (in ...

It took 45 minutes on the phone with the bubbly and friendly voiced Jennifer, but I signed up to get FiOS … almost. It appears Verizon and 911 have opposing ideas about what my street address is, so it’s going ...

First, let’s break down what I feel are both Cablevison’s and Verizon’s weaknesses. Cablevision’s cons: Cable box stinks, freezes often Internet goes out often, always need to reset modem Does not have as many HD channels as Verizon News 12 ...

I’m getting FiOS. I moved to Long Island from New Paltz several years ago and one of the first house warming gifts I found on the Island’s welcome mat was a heavy helping of Time Warner withdrawal. This beached suburb ...